An obscure resident of Shenandoah County, Virginia, Burder Bunyon Bowman lived to the age of 94 and, despite that longevity, has scant information available on his life and political career. A lifelong resident of the Old Dominion State, Bowman was a farmer who was elected to three consecutive terms in the Virginia House of Delegates and later achieved further political distinction by being a two-time Republican National convention delegate and a Presidential Elector for Virginia .... Born and raised on his family's farm in Edinburg, Burder studied at Edinburg schools, including "a subscription school, then one of the early one-room free schools," before graduating from Edinburg High School. After completing his schooling, Bowman followed the career of a gentleman farmer, raising on his family's farm "wheat, corn, hay, and livestock" and by the mid-1920s owned a farm that comprised two-hundred and fifty acres "along the north branch of the Shenandoah River."
(From an article in "The Strangest Names in American Political History."
"Burder B. Bowman, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, has spent all his life on the Bowman estate near Edinburg, and his individual activities as a farmer, business man and citizen have contributed no small measure of the fair fame in which the name of Bowman is held here. His grandfather was Jacob Bowman, who was reared on the Shenandoah, just east of Woodstock.
(Article from "History of Virginia," Vol. 4, p. 261.)
(From an article in "The Strangest Names in American Political History."
"Burder B. Bowman, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, has spent all his life on the Bowman estate near Edinburg, and his individual activities as a farmer, business man and citizen have contributed no small measure of the fair fame in which the name of Bowman is held here. His grandfather was Jacob Bowman, who was reared on the Shenandoah, just east of Woodstock.
(Article from "History of Virginia," Vol. 4, p. 261.)
An obscure resident of Shenandoah County, Virginia, Burder Bunyon Bowman lived to the age of 94 and, despite that longevity, has scant information available on his life and political career. A lifelong resident of the Old Dominion State, Bowman was a farmer who was elected to three consecutive terms in the Virginia House of Delegates and later achieved further political distinction by being a two-time Republican National convention delegate and a Presidential Elector for Virginia .... Born and raised on his family's farm in Edinburg, Burder studied at Edinburg schools, including "a subscription school, then one of the early one-room free schools," before graduating from Edinburg High School. After completing his schooling, Bowman followed the career of a gentleman farmer, raising on his family's farm "wheat, corn, hay, and livestock" and by the mid-1920s owned a farm that comprised two-hundred and fifty acres "along the north branch of the Shenandoah River."
(From an article in "The Strangest Names in American Political History."
"Burder B. Bowman, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, has spent all his life on the Bowman estate near Edinburg, and his individual activities as a farmer, business man and citizen have contributed no small measure of the fair fame in which the name of Bowman is held here. His grandfather was Jacob Bowman, who was reared on the Shenandoah, just east of Woodstock.
(Article from "History of Virginia," Vol. 4, p. 261.)
(From an article in "The Strangest Names in American Political History."
"Burder B. Bowman, a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates, has spent all his life on the Bowman estate near Edinburg, and his individual activities as a farmer, business man and citizen have contributed no small measure of the fair fame in which the name of Bowman is held here. His grandfather was Jacob Bowman, who was reared on the Shenandoah, just east of Woodstock.
(Article from "History of Virginia," Vol. 4, p. 261.)
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His name is on the same gravestone as his sister Laura.
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